Top 180 Tom Ford Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.”

— Tom Ford

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2. “Everyday is one less day.”

— Tom Ford

3. “There are no right or wrong answers, There is only intuition.”

— Tom Ford

4. “Dressing well is a form of good manners.”

— Tom Ford

5. “I think that the older you get, the more you become your true, essential self. You find the things that make you happy. You whittle away the parts of yourself that mean less to you.”

— Tom Ford

6. “I’m a very serious person.”

— Tom Ford

7. “You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.”

— Tom Ford

8. “I guess I’m just one of these people who, when I decide I’m going to do something, I just do it.”

— Tom Ford

9. “I know one day I’ll be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try there is a cultural moment, but eventually that window’s gone, your time on Earth is finished, and you might as well leave. I could absolutely die tomorrow – I would not care. I feel like I’ve lived, I feel like I’ve had a great life.”

— Tom Ford

10. “When I am on my deathbed, I don’t think I will be thinking about a nice pair of shoes I had or my beautiful house. I am going to be thinking about an evening I spent with somebody when I was twenty where I felt that I was just absolutely connected to them.”

— Tom Ford

11. “When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.”

— Tom Ford

12. “The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.”

— Tom Ford

13. “You have to love what you do to the point that you can’t imagine doing anything else with your life.”

— Tom Ford

14. “Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.”

— Tom Ford

15. “A few times in my life I’ve had moments of clarity where the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think.”

— Tom Ford

16. “If it’s not fun, I’m not going to do it.”

— Tom Ford

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17. “I’m a perfectionist, to the point of insanity.”

— Tom Ford

18. “I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don’t let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do.”

— Tom Ford

19. “From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.”

— Tom Ford

20. “She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she’ll be perfect.”

— Tom Ford

21. “I don’t believe that clothes can start a revolution, but I do believe that fashion is often a manifestation of a sociological or political climate.”

— Tom Ford

22. “Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering – it will take pounds off you.”

— Tom Ford

23. “Skin bathed in summer sunset light is sultry and sublime. Every woman looks irresistible in its glow-relaxed and sensual.”

— Tom Ford

24. “A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.”

— Tom Ford

25. “Fashion creates a bit of a dream.”

— Tom Ford

26. “France? I don’t want to be anti-French but there isn’t a more unattractive group of people on the streets.”

— Tom Ford

27. “Only hire people you want to have dinner with.”

— Tom Ford

28. “We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?”

— Tom Ford

29. “I don’t work for money any longer. I work for pride.”

— Tom Ford

30. “I’m a pretty calm person. That came from living in Italy for a long time. Nothing works, nothing is on time. You have to learn to deal with it.”

— Tom Ford

31. “Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.”

— Tom Ford

32. “Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.”

— Tom Ford

33. “I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.”

— Tom Ford

34. “You can’t fake anything. If you’re honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.”

— Tom Ford

35. “My real life’s not like the fantasy Tom Ford world – with naked girls pouring perfume everywhere. It’s more staying in and watching Friends on television.”

— Tom Ford

36. “You know that only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile has been those few times that I was able to truly connect with another person.”

— Tom Ford

37. “I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don’t design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me.”

— Tom Ford

38. “A good trick as you get older is to get a thick pair of glasses that have a dark frame. Everything else can droop and slide but that pair of dark glasses stays sharp and crisp. Look at Cary Grant. Look at Vidal Sassoon.”

— Tom Ford

39. “I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well.”

— Tom Ford

40. “Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.”

— Tom Ford

41. “I do everything completely naked.”

— Tom Ford

42. “I’m a fashion designer. What I do is artistic, but I’m not an artist because everything I do is destined to be sold. That’s not to say that you can’t be an artist and a fashion designer. I think some designers are artists.”

— Tom Ford

43. “It’s hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.”

— Tom Ford

44. “If you don’t need to quit drinking, you shouldn’t quit drinking. I used to really love to drink, and especially living in London, it’s just built for drinking...”

— Tom Ford

45. “What’s so wrong with vanity? It’s different from narcissism, you know? It’s not about admiring yourself-it’s about taking pride in your appearance.”

— Tom Ford

46. “I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don’t really need to have New Year’s resolutions.”

— Tom Ford

47. “I’m a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I’ve always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.”

— Tom Ford

48. “I do struggle because I’m attracted to beautiful things, yet at the same time I am actually very aware, in some sense, their lack of value and that the most important things in life are your connections to other people.”

— Tom Ford

49. “I don’t work for money any longer. I’m fortunate enough not to need to work for money, but I work for pride; I work because I love to work, and so the idea that one could lose control of one’s own name and that things could be produced with your name on that you were not proud of scared me.”

— Tom Ford

50. “My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. She’d swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great.”

— Tom Ford